Dear Anivar,
Congratulations to you, others in the SMC team and officials who are behind this initiative!! Hope to hear about the official order.
Let the Knowledge Go around :)
Best, Vishnu
On 15 November 2013 18:33, Anivar Aravind anivar.aravind@gmail.com wrote:
Sorry for the typos** earlier
Dear all ,
Some happy news for all of us .
The School curriculum steering commitee of Kerala Govt's SCERT(State Council Educational Research and Training) decided 3 major points in our interest yesterday
- SCERT is improving text book printing infrastructure by shifting from
Adobe 's softwares to FOSS based XeTeX and free licensed fonts.
- They will shift from ASCII to Unicode . This will also help in
universal access for differentially abled via technologies like Text to Speech even in Malayalam Language .
- The books will be licensed under CC-BY-SA .
Official Order is still pending. But I am posting this since it is already in media reports.
Read a report in TOI http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/education/news/Now-free-software-to-...
The Change will be applicable to all newly publishing books from now Starting from Malayalam Text books in 5, 7, and 11th standards
Myself, Hrishikesh K.B and a team from Swathanthra Malayalam Computing ( http://smc.org) are working closely with SCERT from last few months to help them in initiating this change process.
Thanks to Dr. P.K Thilak, Research Officer SCERT , Director SCERT, and Biju Prabhakar IAS (Director of Public Instruction, Govt of Kerala ) for initiating this Change.
~ regards Anivar Aravind Secretary Swathanthra Malaalam Computing http://smc.org.in Ph. 09448063780
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